The Jamaican Virtual Herbarium

Welcome

Welcome to the online portal of the University of the West Indies' and Institute of Jamaica's Virtual Herbarium. A project funded by the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica that received logistical support from Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens. We are currently testing our facility and welcome you to be a part of that process. Please feel free to use the query terminal to the left of this message to enter your search parameter(s) and when ready click on the "Submit Query" button to begin your search. There are hints that will pop-up if you hover your cursor over the respective input boxes. Click here for more information regarding this project.

This project began by cataloguing the collections of W. M. Harris at UWI and G. R. Proctor at IOJ, with focus placed on 10 families/subfamilies. Namely: